Monday, 12 March 2012

Sepia Saturday 117 - Scouts

In a comment to last weeks' Sepia Saturday call, Colleen G. Brown Pasquale of Leaves and Branches pointed out that this week marked the 100th anniversary of the girl scout movement and the same anniversary of the boy scout movement took place recently. Such an important milestone calls for a celebration so we are celebrating this week on Sepia Saturday with the theme "Scouts". You can extend the theme in any direction you want to - I seem to recall I have a picture of my father in the Boys' Brigade and therefore my particular extension will be inter-denominational - and you can always ignore the theme and post an old picture of choice if you would like to. Whatever you decide, be prepared to post your post and signal it by adding a link to the list below.

My archive picture dates back to 1914 and comes from the Flickr Commons collection of the National Library of Ireland. It is entitled "Fianna Éireann scouts carrying out signal training with flags". If you are not familiar with the language of semaphore, allow me to translate for you. It says "Get your Sepia Saturday 117 Posts up on or around Saturday 17th March 2012". Dib dib dib!

Hi Alan,I've done again, posted an old sepia saturday by mistake. It's #8. So people don't have to suffer through reading an old post, could you please remove it.Don't know how I do it!Thanks much.Nancy

Two posts this time. The first linked to Sepia Saturday is of old scout photos from Scotland. The second post is of the 1960 American scout handbook. A link is provided on the photography site within the post.

I have tried 3 times to leave a message, but it won't accept it on your page, sorry. Here it is:This is a great post. Thanks so much for sharing your memories with us. How cool to have met Tootie; and I love the idea of the Dolly Derby.

No boys club for me but something that looks like boystown rather...and there's even some family pictures in this post!! But I mostly rellied on the web. And I've included an old joke about scout girls... at the end!!;)~ HUGZ

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.